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  • A Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery with Barbara M. Kershaw
    Taught by Barbara M. Kershaw (view bio)

    ICC, Surface Embroidery

    A Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery introduces the student to the beautiful style of whitework from Germany known as Schwalm Embroidery.

  • A Touch of Fall with Jane Ellen Balzuweit – Encore
    Taught by Jane Ellen Balzuweit (view bio)

    GCC, Counted Thread, GCC Encore, Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

    A Touch of Fall is created using a 17th century white work technique, Dresden Lace, a combination of pulled thread and surface embroidery.

  • Ancestree with Carolyn Standing Webb – Encore
    Taught by Carolyn Standing Webb (view bio)

    GCC, Counted Thread, GCC Encore, Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

    On Ancestree you will work on a tree of life design that will feature five generations of your family.

  • Avondale with Carol Currier
    Taught by Carol Peao Currier (view bio)

    GCC, Surface Embroidery, Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

    Avondale is an exploration of a summer garden using basic crewel embroidery stitches in interesting combinations.

  • Baby Steps with Gwen Nelson
    Taught by Gwen Nelson (view bio)

    GCC, Beading, Skill Level: Advanced Beginner

    There are five beading techniques that must be demonstrated to receive certificates in the Master Craftsman Program in Beading. The five techniques are Square Stitch, Herringbone Stitch, Even Count Peyote Stitch, Bead Embroidery, and Right-Angle Weave. Baby Steps includes very simplified lessons in the five techniques.

  • Bargello and Design with Gail Stafford
    Taught by Gail Stafford (view bio)

    GCC, Canvas, Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

    Bargello and Design is a course designed for intermediate and advanced stitchers who want to create their own square Bargello samplers. The class focus is to design a sampler, and Bargello is the type of canvas embroidery used in the design.

  • Beginning Teneriffe Lace with Jonalene Gutwein
    Taught by Jonalene Gutwein (view bio)

    GCC, Lace, Skill Level: Beginner

    Beginning Teneriffe Lace will give you the basics of the beautiful needlelace technique of Teneriffe.

  • Boca Blossoms with Carol Currier
    Taught by Carol Peao Currier (view bio)

    GCC, Crewel, Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

    Boca Blossoms is a beginner to intermediate crewel embroidery course with a focus on soft shading using one color family but varying the color order. The stitches include Chain Stitch, Fly Stitch, French Knots, Long & Shorting Shading, Outline/Stem Stitch, Split Stitch and Straight Stitch.

  • Cosmos with Kim Sanders – Encore
    Taught by Kim Sanders (view bio)

    GCC, Surface Embroidery, GCC Encore, Skill Level: Intermediate

    Cosmos introduces students to needle painting, one of the most realistic forms of surface embroidery.

  • Crazy Quilting with J. Marsha Michler
    Taught by J. Marsha Michler (view bio)

    ICC, Quilting

    Learn new skills in Victorian Crazy Quilting in this comprehensive Individual Correspondence Course that will bring you to a mastery level of this much-loved art and craft.

  • Daydreams with Barbara Kershaw – Encore
    Taught by Barbara M. Kershaw (view bio)

    GCC, Schwalm, Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

    Join Barbara Kershaw in Daydreams, a Group Correspondence Course focused on Schwalm embroidery, a beautiful form of German whitework embroidery traditionally worked on an off white evenweave linen with white thread.

  • Design for Needlework with India Hayford
    Taught by India Hayford (view bio)

    ICC, Design

    Our Individual Correspondence Course Design for Needlework with India Hayford is for the technically adept embroiderer who wishes to create unique embroideries.

  • Embroidery with Mixed Media with Laura Smith
    Taught by Laura Smith (view bio)

    GCC, Mixed Media and 3D, Skill Level: All Levels

    Study the amazing possibilities of four cool “new” mixed media materials on Embroidery with Mixed Media. Available to individual members as a GCC Lightning Round through February 28, 2025. Register here!

  • English Summer with Cheryl Sharp
    Taught by Cheryl Sharp (view bio)

    GCC, Surface Embroidery, Skill Level: Beginner

    On English Summer you will learn how to prepare the fabric, transfer designs, and set up an embroidery on stretcher bars among other things.

  • Exploring Jacobean Crewel Embroidery with Carol Peao Currier
    Taught by Carol Peao Currier (view bio)

    ICC

    Jacobean Embroidery is a form of English crewel embroidery on linen from the early 17th century. The student will research the history of the period including the origin of typical design motifs and colors used in household furnishings. The student will then translate their research into a stitched design of their own choosing. The student also has the option to stitch the provided design.

  • Fall Colors, A Study in Rozashi with Margaret Kinsey – Encore
    Taught by Margaret Kinsey (view bio)

    GCC, Counted Thread, GCC Encore, Skill Level: Beginner

    Fall Colors is a study in traditional Rozashi embroidery. The leaves, the water, the water lines, the sky, background are a study in the stitches that are traditional to Rozashi.

  • Fandango with Barbara Kershaw – Encore
    Taught by Barbara M. Kershaw (view bio)

    GCC, GCC Encore, Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

    Fandango is focused on Punto Antico, one of many beautiful styles of Italian whitework embroidery.

  • Finding Time with Catherine Jordan
    Taught by Catherine Jordan (view bio)

    GCC, Surface Embroidery, Counted Thread, GCC Encore, Skill Level: Intermediate

    Zentangle® is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. This class will explore the possibilities of interpreting a Zentangle® drawing into an interesting needlework design finished as a booklet cover. Available to individual members as a GCC Lightning Round through February 28, 2025. Register here!

  • Guanin: Gourd Flower with Margaret Kinsey
    Taught by Margaret Kinsey (view bio)

    GCC, Silk and Metal, Skill Level: Beginner

    Guanin: Gourd Flower with teacher Margaret Kinsey is a study of Silk and Metal Threads for beginners. In this study, the beginning student will work with gold twist, #5 Japan gold, #7 gold check thread, Copper pearl purl, copper twist, copper check purl, #1 Copper, and silk floss. The ground fabric is silk satin with a cotton backing fabric.

  • Hearts for You with Denise Harrington Pratt
    Taught by Denise Harrington Pratt (view bio)

    GCC, Counted Thread, Skill Level: Intermediate

    Our Group Correspondence Course Hearts for You with Denise Harrington Pratt is an opportunity for the student to learn a variety of finishing techniques for use with counted thread work and to create a lovely four-piece set of needlework accoutrements.

  • Introduction to Metal Thread Embroidery with Kay Stanis
    Taught by Kay Stanis (view bio)

    ICC, Silk and Metal

    Our Individual Correspondence Course Introduction to Metal Thread Embroidery is an in-depth study of the techniques of metal thread embroidery that will introduce the student to the shimmer of real gold and silver on fabric.

  • Jacobean Fantasy with Kay Stanis – Encore
    Taught by Kay Stanis (view bio)

    GCC, GCC Encore, Silk and Metal, Skill Level: Advanced

    Giving new interpretation to designs of the seventeenth century and blending them with the silk and metal of the twenty-first, in Jacobean Fantasy, we will create an exquisite floral design on silk fabric with detached sheer fabric.

  • Keeping in Shape with Gwen Nelson
    Taught by Gwen Nelson (view bio)

    GCC, Beading, Skill Level: Intermediate

    On Keeping in Shape, the student uses various techniques such as circular and flat peyote to make a necklace with 13 three-dimensional beaded pieces.

  • Love and Laughter with Denise Harrington Pratt – Encore
    Taught by Denise Harrington Pratt (view bio)

    GCC, Counted Thread, GCC Encore, Skill Level: Intermediate

    This lovely counted thread piece was inspired by the abundance of colors and flowers in nature. It was also inspired by the abundance of stitches available to the counted thread embroiderer. And Denise’s motto is, when you don’t have the stitch you need, invent one! This piece offers the student a great opportunity to play with a lot of different stitches that are used in unique ways to create vibrant, stylized flowers.

  • Mark and Paint on Canvas and Fabric with Laura Smith
    Taught by Laura Smith (view bio)

    GCC, Mixed Media and 3D, Skill Level: All Levels

    On our Group Correspondence Course Mark and Paint on Canvas and Fabric, you will mark and paint one design onto needlepoint canvas and one onto silk fabric.

  • More Than a Rose with Melinda Sherbring
    Taught by Melinda Sherbring (view bio)

    GCC, Surface Embroidery, Skill Level: Intermediate

    More Than a Rose is a small piece designed to introduce students to some stitches and raised work techniques used on English sweet bags ca. 1600. Available to individual members as a GCC Lightning Round through February 28, 2025. Register here!

  • Mythical Myrtle with Barbara Kershaw – Encore
    Taught by Barbara M. Kershaw (view bio)

    GCC, Surface Embroidery, Counted Thread, GCC Encore, Skill Level: Intermediate

    Explore the magnificent stitches of Casalguidi embroidery in Mythical Myrtle.

  • Online Studio Class 62: Mushroom Advanced Box Making with Emma Broughton
    Taught by Emma Broughton (view bio)

    Closed Registration

    Mushroom Advanced Box Making with Emma Broughton is an advanced box making course to create a beautiful hexagon shaped box complete with small pull-out drawer with gold colored handle, hidden interior compartments finished with a wonderful, embroidered lid with mushrooms and a Butterfly. Registration: January 3 - February 7, 2024. Class schedule: April 3, 2024 - May 22, 2024.

  • Online Studio Class 63: Trevelyon’s Needlebook with Kathy Andrews
    Taught by Kathy Andrews (view bio)

    Online Course, Closed Registration

    Sweet flowers and fresh, green leafy vines stitched on creamy ivory linen combine in this delightful needlebook. Its design is inspired by the Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608—a book that’s more than 400 years old—compiled at the end of the Renaissance. Together we will embroider this design using satin stitch, stem stitch, long and short shading, leaf stitch, and trellis work. Registration: February 7—March 6, 2024. Class schedule: May 1, 2024–May 29, 2024

  • Online Studio Class 64: A Thread for All Seasons with Susan Hoekstra
    Taught by Susan Hoekstra (view bio)

    Online Course, Closed Registration

    A Thread for All Seasons offers a chance to work with the design color of your choice.  There are three color canvases from which to choose!  Go for colors you would never stitch; broaden your color horizon!  After you have picked out your painted canvas, look at the choices of threads.  Go with what you think ‘matches;’ or go for color you think does not ‘match.’  It is in your hands!  Use your imagination.  After this exercise, you will better understand how colors work together and how colors work off each other.  This exercise will be a real eye opener. Registration: March 6 - April 3, 2024 Class schedule: July 3 - September 11, 2024.

  • Online Studio Class 66: Mandala Hoop Embroidery with J. Marsha Michler
    Taught by J. Marsha Michler (view bio)

    Online Course, Closed Registration

    Use many different embroidery stitches to create a mandala-style design within a 6" (15.24cm) circle. Begin the design at the center and allow it to grow by adding on. Observe the design emerge as you add to it! This design class demonstrates a form of freestyle embroidery. Other mandala-type designs will be presented within the class, showing how an endless variety of designs is possible. Registration: May 1 - June 5, 2024. Class schedule: August 7 - 21, 2024.

  • Online Studio Class 67: Lacy Pin Cushion with Kim Beamish
    Taught by Kim Beamish (view bio)

    Closed Registration

    Lacy Pin Cushion is a Pulled Thread embroidery piece. This pin cushion measures approximately 3 inches in diameter and 1 inch in height when finished. It is stitched on 28 count linen. There is no kit for this project giving students the opportunity to pick a color of their choice. This would be a good stash buster. The thread used for the fillings must match the fabric color choice. Registration: June 5 - July 3, 2024. Class schedule: September 4 - October 30, 2024.

  • Online Studio Class 68: Moroccan Lanterns with Dr. Valentina Grub
    Taught by Dr. Valentina Grub (view bio)

    Online Course, Closed Registration

    Brighten your own embroidery collection with this course, in which you will stitch seven unique lanterns in blackwork. While the stitches used are relatively simple, backstitch or Holbein stitch, the challenge is in arranging the lanterns, and consistently stitching them with intricate, geometric patterns. Registration: July 3, 2024 - August 7, 2024. Class Schedule: October 2-16, 2024.

  • Online Studio Class 69: Espalier Bracelet with Laura Smith
    Taught by Laura Smith (view bio)

    Online Course, Closed Registration

    Espalier is the ancient horticultural practice of training a tree or shrub to grow flat against a wall or frame to produce more blooms and fruit. In this project, you’ll create a bracelet that emulates an espaliered tree. Learn to work with Painter’s Threads overdyed cord and loop trim to provide a structure like tree branches. It supports beads and sequins in their role as the fruit. Two kinds of water-soluble fabric and water-soluble tape hold the structure in place so that it can be hooped. Embellish the bracelet with your own beads. Registration dates: Registration: August 7-September 30, 2024. Class schedule: November 6-13, 2024.

  • Online Studio Class 70: Marvelous Macarons with Sarah de Rousset-Hall
    Taught by Sarah de Rousset-Hall (view bio)

    Closed Registration

    Create silk-covered macarons that look good enough to eat. Inspired by her niece’s obsession with these sweet treats, the designer's stumpwork techniques help create perfect patisserie that make lovely decorations. During class, you will use felt padding, running stitch, lacing, needle lace and ladder stitch to construct the macarons. You will also create a silk filling and an optional cord so you can hang up your treats as described. If you joined the Parisian Patisserie box-making course in 2022, this full kit of six macarons will nestle perfectly inside. Registration dates: Registration: September 4 - October 2, 2024. Class schedule: December 4-11, 2024.

  • Online Studio Class 71: Pink Goldwork Butterfly with Connie Chow
    Taught by Connie Chow (view bio)

    Online Course, Closed Registration

    This butterfly, ready to use as a brooch or hair adornment, is stitched with traditional goldwork techniques-but with a modern twist. Techniques covered include couching pearl purl and gilt twist, chipwork, application of crystals, and cutting and finishing the piece. Registration: October 2 - November 6, 2024. Class schedule: January 8 - February 26, 2025.

  • Online Studio Class 72: Hummingbird in Silk and Gold with Lizzy Pye – Encore
    Taught by Lizzy Pye (view bio)

    Open Registration

    Learn how to handle traditional silks known as flat or filament silks, which are untwisted. Stitch silk shading (long and short stitch), satin stitch and stem stitch to create splashes of color amongst the gold. Learn to create smooth felt padding and embellish with traditional goldwork techniques of couching and colored couching, pearl purl, invisibly stitched twist and chipping. Registration: November 6 - December 4, 2024.

  • Online Studio Class 73: Whitework Windows with Terri Bay
    Taught by Terri Bay (view bio)

    Online Course, Coming soon

    Whitework Windows is a Ukrainian Whitework design measuring 8 inches square. It is densely packed with stitches typical to Ukrainian Whitework such as spot eyelets, double cable, satin stitches, eyelet chains, hemstitch, long arm cross, faggot stitch, and needleweaving. The Windows are worked on 28 count linen with two sizes of pearl cotton. It is an advanced intermediate level. Registration: December 4, 2024 - January 8, 2025. Class schedule: March 5 - April 30, 2025.

  • Stitch a dragon, designed by the instructor and inspired by the Luttrell Psalter manuscript and other medieval sources, using the Bayeux stitch couching technique. The project will use materials authentic to the period, such as wool ground fabric and fibers sourced from artisanal Yorkshire farms. All fibers have been hand-dyed with plant-based colors by the instructor, replicating period-appropriate dyes and materials such as woad, madder, cochineal, and more. Students will have the choice of color schemes for their dragons. Registration: January 1 - February 5, 2025. Class Schedule: April 2 - 30, 2025.

  • Online Studio Class 75: Ode to the Honeybee with Celeste Chalasani
    Taught by Celeste Chalasani (view bio)

    Online Course, Coming soon

    Where would we be without the honeybee? Succulent strawberries, juicy blackberries, and sweet blueberries are just three of our favorite fruits that rely on pollinators such as the honeybee. In turn, the honeybee needs a balanced diet and depends on us to plant a variety of flowers. Create your own “Ode” as you employ contemporary stumpwork techniques, including three types of padding, wired slips, and needlelace. Registration: February 5 - March 5, 2025. Class schedule: May 7, 2025 - August 20, 2025.

  • Online Studio Class: Hummingbird in Silk and Gold with Lizzy Pye
    Taught by Lizzy Pye (view bio)

    Closed Registration

    Learn how to handle traditional silks known as flat or filament silks, which are untwisted. Stitch silk shading (long and short stitch), satin stitch and stem stitch to create splashes of color amongst the gold. Learn to create smooth felt padding and embellish with traditional goldwork techniques of couching and colored couching, pearl purl, invisibly stitched twist and chipping. Registration: October 4 - November 1, 2023. Class schedule: April 3 - May 22, 2024.

  • GCC, Counted Thread, Skill Level: Beginner

    Papillon is an introductory course on filet embroidery. In this 5-lesson course participants will learn briefly about the history of filet work.

  • Perfectly Counted Crosses with Carolyn Standing Webb
    Taught by Carolyn Standing Webb (view bio)

    GCC, Counted Thread, Skill Level: Beginner

    In Perfectly Counted Crosses you will learn how to create a sampler that will dazzle those who see it with perfectly executed crossed stitches.

  • Pulled Stitches Clover with Marion Scoular – Encore
    Taught by Marion Scoular (view bio)

    GCC, GCC Encore, Skill Level: Intermediate

    The leaves and blooms of the charming clover design contain twelve pulled fillings in a variety of patterns. There are both linear and diaper patterns in which the emphasis is placed on tension. Tension, of course, creates a significant change in the texture of the fabric. In pulled stitches, the effect is achieved by what the stitches do, not the appearance of the stitches themselves.

  • Rainbows Bend: A Course on Color Theory with Carole Rinard
    Taught by Carole Rinard (view bio)

    ICC, Color Theory

    From color wheels to how to use color in your own work, our Individual Correspondence Course, Rainbows Bend: A Course on Color Theory is a comprehensive study of color.

  • Reticello Needle Book with Jonalene Gutwein
    Taught by Jonalene Gutwein (view bio)

    GCC, Lace, Skill Level: Advanced Beginner

    This Group Correspondence Course is the next step for the experienced drawn thread enthusiasts who wish to begin learning the technique of reticello. It incorporates the pulled 4-sided stitch, the cutting of threads in both directions, satin stitched edges, and needle weaving.

  • GCC, Canvas, Skill Level: Intermediate

    In Shimmering Dreams, ever-larger sparkling squares rotate around a shiny central medallion to finish in a star silhouette.

  • Silk and Metal Thread Embroidery with Kay Stanis
    Taught by Kay Stanis (view bio)

    ICC, Silk and Metal

    Our Individual Correspondence Course Silk and Metal Thread Embroidery is an in-depth study of the various techniques of silk and metal thread embroidery.

  • Snowflake Ball with Denise Harrington Pratt
    Taught by Denise Harrington Pratt (view bio)

    GCC, Surface Embroidery, Skill Level: All Levels

    The Snowflake Ball is a three-dimensional, beaded needlework ball. You don’t have to understand geometry to stitch this fun piece. Available to individual members as a GCC Lightning Round through February 28, 2025. Register here!

  • Star-Spangled Puzzle Ball with Denise Harrington Pratt
    Taught by Denise Harrington Pratt (view bio)

    GCC, Counted Thread, Skill Level: Intermediate

    Star-Spangled Puzzle Ball offers the opportunity to discover the joy of taking counted thread embroidery into three dimensions by creating a “puzzle ball.”

  • Sweet Bag Sewed of Silver and Gold with Melinda Sherbring
    Taught by Melinda Sherbring (view bio)

    GCC, Surface Embroidery, Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

    Stitch an embroidered bag like the ones that were in style in England from the mid-1500s to the mid-1600s on Sweet Bag Sewed of Silver and Gold.

  • Symphony with Barbara Kershaw
    Taught by Barbara M. Kershaw (view bio)

    GCC, Skill Level: Intermediate

    Work on a beautiful, pulled thread set comprising of an embroidery pouch and smalls that will be a wonderful addition to your sewing basket. Available to individual members as a GCC Lightning Round through August 31, 2024. Register here!

  • Taming the Stash Monster with Laura Smith
    Taught by Laura Smith (view bio)

    GCC, Organization, Skill Level: All Levels

    Get your stash under control with our course Taming the Stash Monster: Clearing your stash, purchasing strategies, archival storage, inventory and more.

  • Techniques for Canvas Embroidery with Diane Herrmann
    Taught by Diane Herrmann (view bio)

    ICC, Canvas

    Our Techniques for Canvas Embroidery Individual Correspondence Course is an in-depth study of the various techniques used in canvas embroidery.

  • Thank Goodness It’s Finished with Kim Sanders
    Taught by Kim Sanders (view bio)

    GCC, Finishing, Skill Level: All Levels

    Thank Goodness It’s Finished teaches a variety of skills needed to assemble embroideries into their final form.

  • The Art of Teaching Embroidery with Kay Stanis
    Taught by Kay Stanis (view bio)

    ICC, Teaching

    Are you interested in becoming a better teacher? Do you have questions about developing classes, text, kits, or visual aids? Or do you have questions about the practical aspects of teaching, finances, contracts, time management or proposals? Then our Individual Correspondence Course The Art of Teaching Embroidery is for you.

  • The Princess and the Pea with Marion Scoular – Encore
    Taught by Marion Scoular (view bio)

    GCC, Counted Thread, GCC Encore, Skill Level: Intermediate

    Teacher Marion Scoular's interpretation of the beloved fairy tale includes pattern darning, Blackwork, Hardanger (no cutting!) and a small amount of surface stitchery, all explicitly covered in a 26-page, well-illustrated booklet.

  • The Sampler Family Tree with Carolyn Standing Webb
    Taught by Carolyn Standing Webb (view bio)

    ICC

    Samplers are one of the most recognizable of the forms of historical embroidery. This Individual Correspondence Course with teacher Carolyn Standing Webb will help you to explore the history that is the family tree of samplers with all of the different branches.

  • Trio with Carol Currier
    Taught by Carol Peao Currier (view bio)

    GCC, Crewel, Skill Level: Intermediate, Skill Level: Advanced Beginner

    Trio is a crewel exercise incorporating a variety of choices in a design. The student is encouraged to “mix and match” elements to create their own pattern. Floral and foliage samples are given so that they may be moved about like dressing paper dolls. This allows the stitcher to pick and choose for an individual design. Stitching instructions for each motif are included. Available to individual members as a GCC Lightning Round through February 28, 2025. Register here!

  • Virtual Education Course: Queen Catherine’s Book Cover, Bag, and Pyn Pillow with Carolyn Standing Webb
    Taught by Carolyn Standing Webb (view bio)

    Virtual Education Course

    The project set comprises a tasseled, silk-lined bag with different historical designs on each side; a ribbon-tied, book-shaped box that fits inside the bag; and a pin cushion known as a pyn pillow. The pieces are stitched on one side with the traditional black that gives blackwork its name, accented with gold and silver threads and paillettes. Registration Opens: February 1, 2025 Class Dates: June 5-7, 2025 Enter your name and email here to let us know you're interested.

  • Virtual Lecture 47: Pushing Boundaries: Embroidery + Book Arts with Celeste Chalasani
    Taught by Celeste Chalasani (view bio)

    Virtual Lectures

    In this lecture, Celeste describes her journey as she explored combining embroidery with book art techniques for the National Academy of Needle Arts Teacher Cum Laude program. She’ll show you six different book binding methods she learned and how she has been able to use embroidery in her art practice. You’ll also see the tools and materials needed, as well as what worked and what didn’t. Live Lecture Date: Sunday, December 15, 2024 1PM Eastern Live Lecture Registration: November 18 - December 13, 2024 1PM Eastern

  • The Red Dress project, conceived by British artist Kirstie Macleod, provides an artistic platform for individuals (majority women) around the world, many of whom are vulnerable and live in poverty, to tell their story through embroidery. Live Lecture Date: Sunday, January 26, 2025 1PM Eastern Live Lecture Registration: December 16, 2024 - January 24, 2025 1PM Eastern